Where Did July Go?

We have been so busy enjoying our summer and working on the house and land that this month has flown by us. Bree is so fast now. She is all over the place. Last week Bebe & I took her to have her picture taken at Kiddie Kandids. They take amazing pictures and always seem to capture Bree in her best momments. The photographers are so good with her as well. Although I must say Bree really hams it up for the camera. We took her to stride rite for some new shoes and the lil stinker went from being a size 3 1/2 in May to noe a whooping size 5 1/2. We then took her to Flower Mound to see Dr. Smalley for her 15 mo. well baby visit. She is still a munchkin, but he was impressed with her steady climbing growth. She weighed 19 lbs 2.5oz. was 29 3/4 inches long. She remains in the 5th percentile in her weight and the 25th for height, but he was pleased overall with her steady growing. He said she was developing wonderfully. Afterwards we took her by her old school to see everyone. It was so nice to see Ms. Cookie, her teacher. We miss her kindness and smiling face so much. Bree showed her all of her new tricks, too. She winks, holds up one finger when you ask how old she is, blows kisses, gives huge hugs, Eskimo kisses, butterfly kisses and much more. Next we met Aunt Kathy at The Galleria for a lil shopping and dinner. What a perfect day!! Bree has a huge vocabulary she even says thank you now. She loves to ride her car and horsey & is still in love with all animals. We proudly welcomed Bree's 4th cousin into this world on July 15th, Miss Kate Marie Kindle. She is beautiful. Bree loves playing with her cousins and the boys are so good with her. We have truly been blessed by her in so many ways. Thank you for checking on us.. Much love to everyone.

We have been so busy lately chasing Bree around and getting ready to close on our house and 19 acres. We close on Tuesday the 10th of June and then we are going to start a complete remodel on the house. The land is beautiful. It is 19 rolling acres with 3 ponds and is in a nice , quiet area just about 2 miles from my Mom's place. Kerry has already started to mow the land and clean the ponds up. It is very peaceful out there and in the future we hope to build a new home on the top of the big hill in the middle of the land and rent the house we are remodeling. We are very excited about the possibilities of our new home. Bree had a wonderful 1st birthday. The theme was "Pink Poodles in Paris". She had the cutest pink poodle shaped Birthday cake w/ iced bone shaped cookies. She loved the cake. She demolished it into a million lil crumbles. She liked to play in it more than anything. She enjoyed all the attention at her party. Thank you to all of our family and friends for coming to celebrate such a wonderful milestone in our lives. She has two bottom teeth now, so she thinks she can eat anything we are eating. However, mashed potatoes are still her food of choice, and Mema makes them for her just about everyday. They spoil her rotten. She definitely entertains them. She is talking a lil more everyday. She says a new word all the time. She loves animals. Kerry and I took her to the Tyler Zoo not long ago and she loved feeding the birds and the elephants. She also loves to swim and do anything outside. She is the huggiest child I have ever seen. She gives the best, biggest hugs ever. At her 1 year check up she weighed 17 lbs. and 13 oz. and was 29 inches long. She is a petite lil thing. Over the Memorial Day holiday she came down with the chicken pox. This was not a fun time. We were at the Whispering Pines Resort with the Lee and Phillips family and I was so afraid that we had exposed Zander and Finlee to the pox, but as of now, no one else has gotten them. Bree had a ton of bumps all over her body, but the majority were in her hair. She never ran much of a fever and didn't really scratch them either. Most of the pox are gone now, there are just a few scabs left. I guess that is one thing we don't have to worry about again. God has blessed us tremendously and we enjoy every second with our families and friends. May God Bless you always.

Our Baby Is Turning One!

This past year has been an amazing blessing from God. Our lives have been by far enriched by Aubree Malena Kindle. She has constantly amazed us with her sweet personality and persona. We could not love her more. She is running around every where. Everyday is a blast to experience with her. She finally has two teeth on the bottom that are just about to break thru the gums. She is the biggest hugger ever. When she sees us she comes running and has the biggest hugs to give. She is definitely an outdoor girl. She loves to go out to play. It is so hard for me to believe that she is turning 1 this Saturday. The year has flown by. Along with all the wonderful joys she has brought to our lives, we also have some more good news. We close on our house in Lake Dallas on May 12th. Once we do that we can get more settled here in Grand Saline. We are definitely looking forward to that. I hope everyone is having a great spring & hopefully we will see you soon. Thanks for checking on us...God Bless.

Country Livin

We have been back in G.S. for two weeks now. My new job is fantastic! Everyone in the office is super nice and I think it already feels like home. We are still staying with family, as our house is still for sale. Bree stays with Mema & Pa and Bebe during the week. Although, we all really miss her teachers at CCLC we are loving that she spends so much time with our families. They are really enjoying it, too. Bree has started to walk short distances at a 0time. I guess she has been doing it for about a week now. She is so funny. She will walk across the living room or from one thing to another from time to time. But sometimes she gets so excited and falls. She loves to dance and play the piano. She is so good natured. Although, we have found one thing that she does not care for at all. The Easter Bunny. Audra and I took Bree and Finlee to the Tyler mall on Friday to see the Easter bunny. We got the girls semi-matching Easter dresses. Bree's is green with big pink flowers trimmed in pink & white polka dots and Finlee's is yellow with big pink flowers trimmed in yellow & white polka dots. They even have custom made hair bows to match. Way cute!! They had such a cute set up for pictures in the mall. The girls were playing and when we sat them down on the bunnies lap, Finlee did great, as for Bree she started shaking and screaming. The poor baby was terrified! We tried to play and sing and I sat there next to the bunny, and she was fine but every time I would hand her to the bunny she cried. So Finlee had her picture made in his lap and then we rearranged the set and set the girls on the bench and had the bunny sneak in behind them. But Bree kept her eye on him the whole time. Other than that she loves everyone. We are so happy to be back around all of our family and friends. We enjoy seeing everyone so often and all the convenience of having everyone right here. Thank you for checking on us...God Bless & Happy St. Patty's Day and Easter.

Coming Home to G.S.

After much consideration we have decided to put our house on the market and move back to our hometown Grand Saline. I have accepted a position at Dr. Zeb's cardiology office in Greenville, Tx. Kerry will continue to manage the company he is with, the drive is actually shorter from G.S. than from our house now. Bree will be staying w/ my grandparents and family everyday which we are very excited about. We are hoping to find some land and build a house, but until then we will be staying with family. Although this will be a big change after being gone for 9 years, we are very excited and look forward to raising Bree around her grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, great aunts & uncles, cousins and many of our long time friends. We have been talking and praying for this move for a very long time and we feel like it is now God's plan to move us back. Thank you for all of your prayers on this matter. We will greatly miss all of our friends and neighbors here, but it will be so nice to be back with our family.

On another note, Bree is really growing fast. At her nine mo. check-up she was 16lbs 2oz. 27 3/4 in. and her head was 42cm. She is long and skinny. She is doing great. She likes to clap & sing, play ball( throwing the ball back & forth), and stand. She is such a fast crawler. She is really into everything. She is such a sweet girl! She loves to give big hugs & kisses. She even hugs Alex every chance she gets. Bree is the light of our lives. She makes everything fun. Last weekend we had a girls day w/ our friends from G.S. and we took the girls to the park after lunch. Bree & Finlee loved to swing. This was Bree's first time and she would kick her legs & laugh when she wanted to go faster. Sooo cute! They also liked to slide. It was so much fun exploring the park w/ these sweet lil girls. Bree is also a big eater. She wants anything we are eating. The other night at Jason's Deli Kerry was having brocolli & cheese soup and Bree wanted some so he was sharing it w/ her. I got some ice cream and figured she would love it, so I gave her a bite. She got so mad she pushed the spoon away, started crying and then spit it out. She was expecting more soup and didn't want the ice cream. Kerry gave her soup and she stopped crying and was happy again. I think we may have found one of her favorite things! Atleast for right now anyway. We are so blessed to have such a wonderful family life. I hope everyone feels the true love and joy that a family can bring. God Bless!

Happiest 9 Months of Our Lives

We can hardly believe that Aubree is now 9 months old. She has been such a pleasure to be around. Her presence has brought so much joy to our home. She is babbling all of the time now. She has 3 main understandable words, Momma, Daddy & Alex. Her procedure with the ear tubes went great! Thank you for all of your prayers. The tubes have been doing their job. They have been draining a lot lately. The poor baby was sent home on Monday from daycare with 101.5 temp. Bebe and Gigi came to stay with her for the remainder of my work week. Dr. Holt said she probably had a viral infection after blood work and testing her for RSV. Both came back negative. The chest x-ray showed that she still has bronchiolitis, so we are continuing to give her breathing treatments. She does pretty well with them for the most part. She has her second boo-boo on her noggin from trying to pull up on things. I am sure there will be many more to come. She loves to play with her toys. Friday night we were in the den watching tv and Bree emptied her toy basket completely. She pulled every toy in there out. It was so funny. She usually just plays with whatever we put out for her, but this time she crawled over to the basket and emptied it. She is a woman who know what she wants! Although, she is also very indecisive like her mother. If Kerry and I are sitting on opposite sides of the room she will crawl towards one of us half way and then turn and go back towards the other and then repeat the process until we go get her or something else catches her attention. She is so fun to watch. She really is entertaining! Once again, we are blessed by her presence in our lives. She is such a sweet girl!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We had a very blessed Christmas. I was off from Dec. 20th thru Dec. 30th to spend time with Bree during her 1st Christmas and w' family. I enjoyed my time thoroughly! Thank you to everyone who so kindly gave to us this year. We appreciate the lovely gifts. Bree enjoyed all the people and lights and wrapping paper this year. She also got several really cool toys that she enjoys playing with. And also some adorable clothes that she loves. She is officially a crawler now. She goes all over the place. She is pulling up on everything too. We can't believe how quickly she has grown. She is still nursing but is also eating all kinds of baby food and cereal. She has a head full of golden blond(almost white) hair. And the bluest eyes ever! She is the happiest baby and is so loving and playful. I love it when she gives hugs and kisses. It is so precious! She weighed 16lbs 7oz. yesterday at the ENT doctors office. Which by the way, she still had an ear infection in her right ear. Therefore we have decided that since she has had ear infections for the past five months that we are going to put tubes in her ears. The procedure will be on this Friday, January 4, 2008. The procedure itself takes only about 5 min . Dr. Baeur will drill a whole, suction the fluid and put in antibiotic tubes. He assures us that she will instantly feel better. Please pray with us for Bree and those taking care of her during this time. We are anxious for Bree to be back to felling her best! We wish everyone a wonderful 2008!